Road to VR

APRIL 22, 2024

Although it could be just a simple branding deal, it may also be an opportunity for Xbox to use it as a nucleation site for eventually integrating XR headsets into the Xbox ecosystem—or beyond Meta’s previously added support for Xbox Cloud Gaming on Quest , which lets players play 2D virtual screen in mixed and virtual reality.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This month, Samsung continued its recent history of leaking details on an upcoming XR wearable when it filed for a “Samsung Glasses” trademark in the UK. Reports suggest that Samsung plans to unveil a new device at its Unpack event next year, with initial production quantities expected to be around 30,000 units.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

First of all, Google has to keep the work on the headset very secret also internally , because Samsung is afraid that Google will steal its expertise to build a competing product. Samsung can be the first partner also on this line of products. All these premises are not good: confusion is never a good sign in business.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2024

The time has finally come: on the last day of 2023, Praydog has released to the world his first version of UEVR, a universal VR mod for all games made with Unreal Engine. Last week I’ve already told you about two new chips that Samsung has built and that may be used in this headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

It’s been another interesting week in immersive realities, so let’s see what happened in our field in the past few days! Top news of the week (Image by Google) Samsung XR headset may have been delayed The new rumor in town is that Samsung has delayed its upcoming headset that it is building in partnership with Google and Qualcomm.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 1, 2023

Industry conversation on the Metaverse and XR has also fuelled discussions across the Augmented World Expo (AWE) USA 2023. Explaining further, he added, “Not to be outdone, the Google-Samsung-Qualcomm power trio is cooking a comeback of their very famous mega Android partnership with a new XR headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Microsoft Magic Leap Varjo HP Acer Samsung ASUS Dell Biel AjnaXR FYR Medical ESight Canon IrisVision VRgineers Zappar Lynx Valve Microsoft Microsoft has been increasing its focus on the extended reality landscape in recent years, with the production of solutions such as Microsoft Mesh, and a metaverse environment for Microsoft Teams.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Image by Samsung, taken from Upload VR). Samsung may launch a next-gen Samsung Odyssey. A recent filing at the Chinese IP offices makes us speculate on a new PC VR headset in the works by Samsung. More info (Reality Check on 5G?—?1) 1) More info (Reality Check on 5G? Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Two days ago I was reading an interesting editorial about PSVR 2 by Scott Hayden, and my mind started wandering about the current moment of virtual reality, the stasis we live in, and our expectations for the upcoming headset. Google and Samsung Prototype of the Samsung XR headset. Long story short: things are not good.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Samsung Technology brand Samsung has been traversing the immersive technology space for some time, with the development of tools designed to take advantage of Samsung smartphones and other computing devices. Valve The Valve Index solution created by Valve was initially introduced as a solution for virtual reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 21, 2023

Spatial’s Creator Toolkit offers creatives flexible designing, building, and publishing for games and immersive stories across the internet, virtual reality (VR), and mobile devices. These have included Adidas, Vogue, Ready Player Me, OpenSea, Polygon Studios, Samsung, The Fabricant, and many others.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

Jake Steinerman spoke with XR Today last week, addressing the firm’s most recent user-generated content toolkit, company vision, and the state of the Metaverse in 2023. The spatial line-up of brand partners represents a range of enterprise end-users, such as Adidas, Vogue, Ready Player Me, OpenSea, Polygon Studios, and Samsung.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 28, 2023

The Reality Labs division’s revenue plummeted by $3.7 The firm expects losses to “increase meaningfully year-over-year due to ongoing product development efforts in augmented reality/virtual reality and investments to further scale our ecosystem.” percent from last year to $1.4

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

We are at the beginning of March and I just realized that I haven’t written yet a post with my predictions for augmented and virtual reality for this year. The last cycle before this one was the Quest one, which started to make virtual reality known to the mainstream audience for what concerns games and fitness.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Sony Interactive Entertainment has finally announced that PSVR 2 will be launched on February 22nd, 2023 for $549. The collaboration between Microsoft and Samsung is now over. According to a new leak, Microsoft scrapped the plans for a HoloLens 3, and also the collaboration with Samsung has been brought to an end.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Read More : Best Of Virtual Reality: 7 Great Apps For Golf, Movies, Ping Pong, Fishing & More Quest Store Bait! first appeared back in 2016 and was once one of the most popular Samsung Gear games. In 2023, it's still going and receiving active support. A free-to-play fishing game from Resolution Games, Bait!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 22, 2023

More info (Quest 2 mosly out of stock) More info (VR had a great Black Friday in UK) More info (Quest 2 selling much better than PSVR 2) Pico 5 has been canceled, Pico 4 Plus not After last month’s layoffs, it seems that Bytedance is totally changing its plans related to virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

So, here you are how I envision this 2020 in virtual reality! (I’ll PlayStation VR selling more than 5 million units until now has proven that console players like virtual reality. Too many people still don’t understand the potential of virtual reality. Me wearing the Oculus Quest. The reasons?

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ARVR

JULY 26, 2022

Do you remember the excitement back to 2021… At any moment, both Apple and Meta were poised to launch full-blown AR headsets for the consumer market, Samsung teased a compelling AR glasses video, Snap was actually starting to ship an AR device, (albeit only for developers), and even Niantic was said to be working on glasses of their own.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 22, 2024

However, in 2023, the momentum shifted. Disney’s History with XR To some, Disney’s dive into XR hardware with its Holotile debut could seem out of the blue; however, this couldn’t be further from the truth – despite ups and downs.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Both plan to debut the joint effort at the Consumer Electronics Show 5 January 2023. Joo-Sung Kim, LiBEST Chief Executive , said in a statement ahead of the CES 2023, “LiBEST has been developing a suitable battery for wearable devices for [the Metaverse]. Exo-Sensor Glove with Flexible Battery: PHOTO: Mand.ro.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

This made sure investors gained some trust for immersive reality startups again, something that will be beneficial for our whole industry. I think that the upcoming release of Quest 3, and the increasing rumors about Samsung are going to improve our situation even more. Let’s all hope so. Great job, Magnopus!

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Upload VR

JUNE 6, 2023

On June 5, 2023, Apple seemed to be doing it again. Augmented Reality. In 2014, Facebook acquired Oculus and planted a flag in virtual reality. Inarguably, Meta in 2023 is the leader in VR with combination of Quest 2 and Quest 3 likely to make it one of the hottest selling game consoles in the world.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 6, 2023

According to this report, this is the plan that Meta has for the upcoming years in VR: Release Quest 3, focused on Mixed Reality, in 2023. I’m pretty excited by these growing rumors about Samsung because Samsung has always proposed interesting XR devices.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Big-G is in fact focusing on strategic partnerships like the one with Qualcomm and Samsung to try to impose itself as the provider of the runtime for XR headsets. The one winning the most important prize, Best 2023 Experience, has been Noire by Centre Pompidou. This does not mean that Google is not still committed to AR, though.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

More info (CREAL announcing its new lightfield innovation) More info (Video showing the technology in action) Samsung acquires eMagin Samsung has just acquired eMagin, an American manufacturer of OLED microdisplays for AR/VR headsets, for $218M.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

Image by Samsung). Samsung is close to launching an XR device, or maybe two. Last month, we got to know that (according to a rumor) Samsung is working together with Microsoft on new AR glasses, most probably powered by a Qualcomm chipset. Samsung has apparently completed a prototype, and “is deciding the release date”.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With the trend of Gaming entrepreneurs, for example, Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Oculus transferred from games to virtual reality and we started to keep eye on the VR area. Me trying virtual reality in an arcade in China… some years ago, when I was younger The charm of VR needs to be experienced in person.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Samsung’s 2023 Unpacked event was all about the company’s Galaxy S23 hardware, although at the end of its hour-long presentation the South Korean tech giant announced it was working with Qualcomm and Google to develop an XR device. HoloLens), virtual reality (e.g. Meta Quest 2), and mixed reality (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

The only possible explanation is that according to Sony’s projections, the VR market may truly become profitable for a console manufacturer around 2022–2023. Together with this piece of news, Bloomberg also reported that PSVR 2 will feature an OLED display manufactured by Samsung.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I’m sorry about that, but it’s still a miracle I’ve managed to write it… Top news of the week (Leaked image from Samsung video) Samsung is back to XR with Google and Qualcomm The big news of the week is that Samsung is back to XR. This is huge because we know that Samsung is able to always deliver good hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

This WWDC has not been an exception in this sense, and now all the Apple analysts (including Kuo and Scoble) already envision a reveal of the Apple headset for January 2023. Rumors already talk about a new AR headset produced by Microsoft in collaboration with Samsung that should substitute it, but we have no sure info about it.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

This week, the analysts Ming-Chi Kuo has teased that Apple Glasses are coming in 2022 at the earliest (2022–2023 timeline). The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. Samsung terminates its XR services.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

According to the news outlet DigiTimes, Apple will use Taiwan-based Pegatron as its sole assembly manufacturer for it, and mass production of the device is set to begin “at the end of the first quarter of 2023”. Hello Neighbor VR is not coming only to PSVR 2, but on all headsets in 2023. Some news on content. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Lubos and Teem Beef have collaborated to port Prey to virtual reality! Someone managed to buy Vail for only $2 There is a new VR mod for Portal 2 … and now there is a bundle featuring Portal and Portal 2 for only $1.50

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Road to VR

JUNE 28, 2023

Provided the report is true, it appears Google will now need to rely on Samsung to compete with Meta and Apple in XR. Still, it seems its Samsung XR headset partnership and AR software development has become the main focus.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Originally anticipated for 2020, the debut of a pair of AR glasses that would win over the masses is now being pushed out as far as 2023 for some. The good news is that when we stop staring at the stars, we will begin to see the remarkable wins that will happen this year that are making AR a reality for consumers today. Hardware. #2

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